and a powerful explosion rocks a small community leaving behind death and destruction coming up the sights and sounds out of west texas and a possible break in the case the f.b.i. releases pictures and video of two suspects in the boston marathon attack an update on the case straight ahead. and it's back to lawmakers in the house give the go ahead to the controversial bill known as cispa but the white house is vowing to veto it later in the show what's insists and why you should be concerned about your internet freedoms. it's thursday april eighteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm going lopez and you are watching r t well we begin in texas where a major blast at a fertilizer plant literally decimated half a town between five and fifteen people were reported dead earlier today those numbers are subject to change though upwards of one hundred sixty people have been

injured including the that count included in that count three to four firefighters as well as one police officer who is currently still missing the explosion happened at the west fertilizer company the blast happened at eight pm eastern time in the town of west texas this is a small farming town with about twenty seven hundred residents this town is located just about twenty miles north of waco texas now amazingly last night's blast was caught on multiple cameras so let's take a look at some of those incredible sights and sounds. sure the. authorities were called to the plant more than half an hour before the explosion actually occurred because of a fire at the factory evacuations of the surrounding area had already begun and not a moment too soon as you just saw now i want to give you some perspective on just

how far reaching this blast really was it decimated a five block radius toppling between fifty and seventy five homes and take a look at this the explosion was so powerful that a seismograph an armorel of texas which is over four hundred miles away from west texas actually detected it it was so big that it registered a two point one magnitude earlier today i was joined by archie correspondent ramona lindo who is in west texas and he filled us in on the aftermath. exactly megan well we have here is still several police departments from around texas cordoned off a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded last night at about seven thirty local time now we've been getting briefed briefings periodically from the mayor and from local law enforcement i just came back from one of the local hospitals which had made it nearly one hundred people who were injured in the

explosion last night overall we know that more than one hundred sixty people were hurt in that blast right now there have been confirmed fade televisa however we haven't gotten a new casualty count recently given the fact that this is still a search and rescue mission some of these first responders to get through the rubble this morning still hoping to find survivors in a neighborhood which has been described as a war zone the mayor called said that it looked like a nuclear bomb had been dropped on his town now ramon i understand that you actually visited one of the hospitals that is hosting a lot of these victims today what did you have a chance to speak with any of them and how are they describing the scene. right well we do speak to one woman earlier who was slightly wounded during the explosion she lived in the vicinity of the blast when she saw the smoke she tried

to run towards the senior center knowing that there were tons of seniors there then that's when another blast came and blew her away she was forced to run away with her children but this morning when we talked to her she was so emotionally distraught her family was ok but so many of her friends she did not know the whereabouts and we have to remember that this is a town of twenty six hundred people many people here know each other many people know a lot of these first responders who are still not accounted for this evening here in texas so. a lot of tense moments for the residents here this by. people not just the police and the fire department the police department came out and told us it is the civilians that live in this town who should also be considered heroes also ran towards the fire in hopes of helping to save some of their neighbors and ramon as you were just speaking about it was people in waco that came in as i had reported earlier waco is quite

a distance away one of the remarkable things about the boston marathon bombing is how quickly the victims were able to get medical care seeing as possum has some of the best facilities in the country as well as equipment that is already that was already set up for the runners meanwhile west texas is twenty miles away from the nearest hospital so how authorities just bonded to this catastrophic incident and helping the victims. in this is a very small town with only a few ambulances and some of the people who work in this town for these emergency services were caught up in the blast itself so hundreds of first responders from throughout texas were able to show up immediately a tree was set up last night behind one of the local community centers on the football field and on the baseball field in the couple of hours that it took to drive from austin to here that had been cleared and more than one hundred people

had been sent to local hospitals so definitely speaks very highly about the preparedness and the cooperation that we've seen here in central texas amongst first responders and finally ramon very quickly any indication on what caused this explosion. and. absolutely right now the un investigation is still under way the a.t.f. the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms is taking part in the investigation as a criminal investigation of high. they do not want to say that it was an intentional explosion or something was said there intentionally we have to remember that fertilizer is very volatile and has been using explosives before so it is a dangerous plant however the investigation is still underway for the root cause meanwhile the police and firefighters are still searching the rubble near the fertilizer plant r.t.

correspondent ramon glenda working hard for us in west texas thank you sara. let's turn now to boston where investigators are still trying to piece together the events that led up to the explosions of the boston marathon and they're still trying to track down those responsible for the bombings now new details have emerged this afternoon after the f.b.i. released these photographs of two men that are wanted for questioning in connection to the bombing as you can see in these photographs one man is wearing a dark hat and a dark backpack the other one is wearing a white hat backwards and carrying a tan backpack the men appear to be in their twenty's and were last seen near the location where one of the two explosions actually occurred now the second suspect was actually seen dropping the backpack in the video where both of the bombs exploded as both men walked in a single file line on boylston street it could not be determined from the photos or the video whether the suspect to the terrorists or homegrown or with that foreign

descent but the f.b.i. special agent rick deslauriers says that the f.b.i. is considering the meant to be armed and dangerous and has warned people to not go near them now i was joined earlier by our to correspondent. and she filled us in on the latest of the boston marathon bombings and president obama's attendance at the memorial service. well you know it was definitely an emotional time people living here in boston were certainly looking forward to some kind of consolation that they did in fact to get that the president was here the president of united states was here to address the people living here in boston and people throughout the united states concerned with this latest tragedy and certainly he gave a very hard heartfelt speech and did meet with the victims families and you know tried to do what he could on his part to make people feel better and i guess safer because of the situation because certainly this is something that was never expected or could have been predicted in this in this kind of picture perfect city

megan. now i also understand. guessing it was not the proudest day for our colleagues over at c.n.n. as well as at fox news both of whom reported that an arrest had definitely taken place and then they actually backtracked within the hour wireless confusion and did you see any direct consequences of this false reporting on the streets of boston. well yes megan you know that was definitely quite amusing and we did see this unravel in front of our very eyes when reports started coming out of c.n.n. saying that there was an arrest made there were quoting there special forces only within you know literally minutes after blowing this up into breaking news that one arrest was finally made to backtrack and you know they had a guest on who said well actually we can confirm with much better sources that no such arrest has been made on the f.b.i. was scheduled to hold a press conference yesterday on wednesday which they ended up canceling you know reportedly because of this false information started coming out in terms of whether

or not this effect of people here in boston probably not there was probably some kind of false hope that finally this investigation has moved closer to finding who was behind the attacks but certainly there was some concerns that this could have been misleading before for the investigation itself and for certainly the whoever is behind the attack in terms of their further their further steps and then being closer to tracking this person down are to correspondent honest reporting in boston . those are new developments in the incident that put the white house on alert and cause numerous evacuations of the capitol hill earlier yesterday authorities have now arrested and charged the man suspected to have sent those two suspicious letters to president obama and republican senator roger wicker forty five year old paul kevin curtis was arrested by f.b.i. officers in his home of corinth mississippi last night mr curtis is somewhat of a celebrity in his hometown that's because he and his brother are famous for their

elvis impersonation don't believe me well see for yourself. he also does buddy holly johnny cash and prince impersonations now paul kevin curtis has made his intentions of the letters clear he believes that he uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market he also claims that the f.b.i. and various parties within the government are trying to ruin his reputation and are using drones to spy on him and yet another strange twist it turns out that senator wicker confirmed today that he actually hired mr curtis to do impersonations at a party that he and his wife were hosting just a few years back an additional letter was also sent to a mississippi judge earlier in the week now the letters tested positive for a poisonous substance known as rice in now for those of you who don't know this is a substance that is actually derived from the castor plant that's the same plant

that's used to make castor oil there is no known antidote for rice and it's extremely deadly deadly when it's actually inhaled the letters did not actually reach the hands of the president or the senator mr curtis has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the past and is on medications for about his attorneys are maintaining his innocence they haven't yet decided whether to seek a hearing to determine his mental state if convicted mr curtis will spend anywhere between five to fifteen years in federal prison. well it's thursday and that means it's time for the tech report on the agenda for today the siren teligent sharing protection act better known as this pup just today the bill passed through the house of representatives two hundred eighty eight to one hundred twenty seven it's now on its way to the senate now cis but it's causing a bitter divide both in capitol hill as well as in silicon valley computer giants like i.b.m. and intel have lobbied hard to support the bill while months below read it and

groups like the electronic frontier foundation have voiced concerns over. i have a c. writes and even president obama is weighing in in a letter to congress the white house threatened to veto the bill in its current form so to talk more about this tangled web i was joined earlier by sharon bradford franklin she's a senior counsel at the constitution project and i asked her what this legislation would mean of the average person and what it would mean for us using the web. well the problem is that the bill that was passed today by the house does not include adequate safeguards to prevent private companies from sharing your personal information with the government and the basic approach of the bill is to promote information sharing between private sector and the government and the basic concept of that is fine as long as we do have robust safeguards built into the bill and unfortunately we did not get that with this but now let me ask you this this bill in its current form is says that it wants private companies as you said it promotes

cooperation it asks private companies to share their information but it does not force them what does that mean that's correct it is voluntary for companies to send information to the government but it creates a huge incentive system because it provides broad scale immunity from liability when companies do share that information with the federal government and in fact the breadth of the immunity provision is another key problem with this because companies now if they act in good faith are immune for their information sharing even if they engage in some behaviors that may be reckless or without any kind of reasonable planning involved well let's talk about that liability let's talk about that what does that encompass what exactly can these companies get away with and how little fact us and how we use the internet. well the way the bill is structured poses all of the requirements on the government once it receives information to protect our rights and that is really troubling is we do want to make sure that

companies have to play a role here in avoiding sending in your personal information to the government the breath of the immunity includes protection for any decisions made based on cyber security purposes and that's a very broad term it can come as a whole lot of activity including as i mentioned some that may be reckless if they perceive there's a cyber attack and they want to take action based on that. now as i understand it essentially overrides a lot of the current laws that we have intact including the electronic communications privacy act for instance considering all those laws a lot of those laws haven't actually been updated since the eighty's is this a way to kind of shortcut and get around actually updating those laws by just passing. no i wouldn't say that and we still do have important efforts to try to mend those laws the concern where the structure the bill says notwithstanding any other law is that it trumps any existing privacy protections and safeguards in that

regard that are already in place and that's why we want to make sure that the provisions within the bill are sufficiently robust and one key problem of course is it does not have a provision that we had hoped for an amendment that would require companies to make reasonable efforts to strip out information that could be used to identify a specific person unrelated to the cyber threat and companies have testified before congress that this is something they can do and i have to ask you about another thing that kind of sparked my interest and that is that this bill actually allows for the or the critics of the bill are actually asking for the bill to be able to allow for this information to first go to some kind of civilian organization like the department of homeland security before it's dispersed to other agencies like the n.s.a. for instance so from your perspective what what does that do what will that help when this information is going out and general well the provision you just mentioned that's actually one good thing that did happen very last minute we got an amendment that was introduced on the floor it was not one that was originally

passed through by the rules committee for a vote that does help on this problem of maintaining civilian control under that new provision if companies want to come under the liability protection immunity protections they can only give the information directly to either part of the department homeland security or if it's a crime to the department of justice and how will that hell out of her checked us even more because the central means that more people have are in. from ation essentially well it helps protect us because it maintains a civilian agency at the as the one that receives any information coming from our private civilian networks in peacetime so that is a big improvement and that was a key concern for us now of course the bill does require that they departed homeland security and part of justice then set up rules to pass through information in real time to other agencies including of course the n.s.a. but they will have to do that with policies and procedures in place that hopefully at least through automated ways can help minimize the personal information that is

passed through to those other agencies so more regulation and we have a little bit of time left i have to ask you about the money the lobbying efforts that are actually going into this kind of saying now i know on monday i've sent over two hundred executives to d.c. in order to lobby for this bill and as a result thirty six new coast co-sponsors we can see if those who are exactly correlated but thirty six new co-sponsors actually join so to say anything about outside interest playing a role on capitol hill well it's a good question there certainly is some indication of that they're also i do have to give some credit to the bill's sponsors for making some of these improvements this one that we just discussed about civilian control being an important one but of course it didn't get far enough and we still need to have much more robust safeguards for privacy rights and hopefully that will come through the senate if this bill does continue sharing bradford franklin senior counsel at the constitution project thank you so much for weighing in on this thank you very much and now the latest on a story we've been covering since the beginning on r.t. or for years anyway the trans-pacific partnership it is a u.s.

led free trade agreement that involves countries you see here on this map those countries are in southeast asia and south america along with the u.s. now one country is looking to join in particular and that being japan the united states just approved japan to become one of its partners a move that still needs partner nations australia canada new zealand and peru to get the go ahead. other countries have already agreed to this to japan joining so what is the t.p. pay you might ask well the try to agreement as described by the public citizens. organization as the north american free trade agreement on steroids and is still very strong on it in favor c. but we do know that the partnership would involve nearly forty percent of the world economy it has been in the going to go see a sions since the bush administration and as one of president obama's top administrators priorities to be payrolls would override any national laws including

those regarding internet freedom the production of generic of pharmaceuticals and veyron mental and financial regulations and much much more now really are today i was joined by stan so sure a labor representative at the professional air and space union and he explained his stance on the trade negotiations a lot of times a you kind of suggested this in the way you framed the question a lot of times it comes across as free trade versus protectionism and my union for instance where in the earth space industry we're one hundred percent in favor of trade everybody i know is in favor of trade we make products the rest of world wants to buy so the issue for us is is having a good trade policy or a bad trade policy and i think we would know a good trade policy i think all of us do a good trade policy is one that raises our standard of living and so i think that's kind of the way we look at it we have always looked at these trade agreements as you know what do they do for workers and families and communities do they bring

prosperity which is the promise of free trade or they really are. thing our economy and shipping jobs overseas and. making you know a weaker economic future that that's really the test i think and it's not just unions who feel this way this is really something that you get across civil society i was quite surprised to see that as explained to me it was from by the koreans the japanese understand it this way. in europe they understand it this way these agreements are not so much about trade as the way we express our social values so every organization civil society i think has a very strong stake in this now sanda tippin close the creation of tribunals to deal with this agreement between national laws and foreign firms how does that work and isn't bad for regular citizens. well. as a very interesting question you know we think of a tribe you know we think of justice in court as something that has

a lot of legitimacy this is very important to our social fabric these trade tribunals are very different they're not like our courts they're the decisions are made by the trade lawyers who have day jobs being. employed by trading companies and organizations involved in trade they have no public responsibility they're not accountable to anybody so they'll express the interests that are set up in these tribunals in the way the trade agreements work the highest interest is maximum possible trade and investor so that's what these tribunals are going to be all about so if the province of quebec wants to study fracking and suspend fracking as a public policy issue. when that goes to the trade tribunals that's now one of the high priorities public interest is not a high priority for the trade tribunals they're going to be thinking about investor

interest because that's what's written in the trade agreement and finally found we have a very very short amount of time left can you break down for me specifically how this is going to hurt your business. well that's an interesting question is that going to hurt our business it's going to hurt our communities and our families and workers businesses are going to do very well their interests are being served when it comes to sharing the gains from trade most of those gains which is what we've seen most of those gains go to investors and multinational trading companies who will be at a disadvantage here at the environment human rights labor rights public health and financial regulation all those interests of civil society they will they will have a much lower priority there and i'm going to have to cut you off there stance or share from the professional aerospace union well have you ever thought about investing in one of those ideas that seems almost too good to be true that's because oftentimes it is too good to be true there are two things that every policy

scheme aims capital and people but what is one of those denominators decreases the resident dot net host laurie harshness gives us her two cents. on this simple if you believe the world economy is a sound solid structure you are and eighty it and i mean that in the kindest way possible but seriously the entirety of our economy is a ponzi scheme and anyone with half a brain spends about fifteen minutes thinking about it will agree and the ponzi scheme is beginning to show some cracks. first we had people losing their homes and

savings because they were buying up crap they couldn't afford and then we had governments bailing out banks and corporations and now we have government bailing out other government we prefer patchouli finance the president with the promise of the future is prosperity it's in faith in that at some point the buck passing has to stop as nouriel roubini a noted economist recently said there's not going to be anyone coming from mars or the mood to bail out the i.m.f. or the euro zone the way or ponzi scheme works that we have this horrible system that centers on an ever growing population that produces and consumes ever more stuff and that's a ponzi schemes work right keep finding more and more suckers to find the disagreement to keep everything afloat and you can keep this scheme alive so long as the future remains full of new consumers will be five but we live in interesting

times my friend and we're starting to face lowered the rates in developing countries and a growing aging population take europe for example the last period for which the un data showed europe's total fertility rate of of the replacement rate was in the seventy's and as the recession continues people are reproducing less than last in the u.s. the birth rate fell to its lowest level in modern history in twenty eleven and before you start thinking well just look at the chinese there are of billion of them we clearly don't have a fertility problem let me cut you off rate there and tell you that fertility rates in china are lower than those in europe the birth rate in china currently is one point five five well below the fertility rate of two point one or more which is what is needed to keep. population is growing it's about replacement we just aren't

making enough new people so in the future we're going to have fewer people consuming less and needing fewer resources and having fewer people around to consume us crap is very very bad for our ponzi scheme economy that scheme requires more suckers to keep buying into this theme and we're making fewer suckers . but here's the silver lining having fewer people around consuming less than not feeding into a ponzi scheme is all to believe better it would be very good for the planet obviously and also for people like me could use a little more elbow room on the subway it would be awesome if society's doubt stealing from its future self sucking guys the legacy of humankind the trick is for people to figure out a way to opt out of the ponzi scheme without opting out of society entirely and then involve figuring out

a way to cut out the banks and politician finding ways to provide ourselves with their own sources of energy number one that's most important and also finding ways to feed and clothe ourselves and interact with each other without relying on the people running the scheme and if that doesn't happen sooner or later the sham of our economy is going to crash just like every ponzi scheme before it tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident. an update now on the explosion at a fertilizer facility in west texas the city's mayor tommy muska told reuters today earlier that fourteen people are confirmed dead among the dead are for emergency medical technicians and five volunteer firefighters meanwhile the l.a. times is saying that the death toll the death toll could be as high as thirty five

we will keep you updated on the story as it continues to develop and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we cover go to you tube dot com slash our to america or check out our website r c dot com. you can also follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez for now have a great night. on the road to bass for this morning the u.s. army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twentieth after nine years of

occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. every gun got in it but if i may add a little bit of the iraqis anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators their departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches. cease. a. little late.

april twenty twelve and i'm back in iraq and so on the border with turkey. i have an appointment this morning with a lebanese taxi. family the united states said it would make a democracy out of iraq in the heart of the arab world but the iraq i see today is

a country on the brink of chaos torn between three groups sunny's and shias. it is a country divided a stranger to peace that i'm about to cross a taxi ride to the heart of iraqi history. from the hole in the north of travel down through l.b. little ammonia kirkuk mosul tikrit volusia baghdad babylon. and i'll file a road map of the iraqi tragedy. of obviously i'm delighted the americans have finally left iraq as much of what we are rocky is a very happy not to see here anymore enough was enough the americans occupied us so we hate them like they lean here in iraq they killed in creating the conditions for chaos they are responsible for the whole tragedy because we were living in peace

and they came to destroy our country and us over at all of us of the. journey begins on the mountains of iraqi kurdistan. an army of two hundred thousand soldiers called peshmerga watch over this rather particular region of the country. was. my first stop is an l.b.o. the capital of iraqi kurdistan is the only region of iraq today that is seeing peace and an economic boom the miracle of being made possible by the discovery of oil on kurdish territory. from. long time dominated by baghdad and saddam hussein kurdistan dreams of achieving autonomy.

the first customer the first passenger on our trip is a member of the new kurdish parliament. here but just you know what in iraq we can say that oil has always been a curse. but today in kurdistan that's changing. foreign oil companies are coming here to work with. the revenues are finally being used for reconstruction and what negative it's a huge difference for us as in saddam's times we never benefited from the oil money or the new see that he had any quick is that i don't know that yet and i know he went so it's quite simple we could spend for we're iraqis where the i think they're very rapidly as soon as we have been able to create a stable basis for building a country ninety nine percent of people will vote for independence and we could.

know what the what the people want their own country a country called could stand looking at it as that they want their own passport but there's no kurdish one i spoke to could stand. a land of trafford's kurdistan is discovering well through its oil a nightmare for baghdad which had long controlled with the resources and riches. without driver khalid we had east towards the mountains along the border with a round. driving through abandoned villages i feel like i'm visiting cemeteries. passenger ahmed is a survivor today he's on a pilgrimage paying tribute to the dead.

so early as nine hundred eighty eight during the island that follow a military campaign waged by saddam against the kurds my village was completely destroyed. and some of the inhabitants i would report it to southern iraq and locked up in the terrible new grass on prison counter. many women children and men women last weekend and thrown into mass graves. the kurds have always dreamed of independence saddam hussein decided to eliminate the problem once and for all. his cousin to go down in history as chemical ali was in charge of the repression. on march sixteenth one thousand nine hundred eight his helicopters dropped bombs loaded with toxic gas have a kurdish villages. one hundred thousand civilians were killed and three thousand

villages were raised the kurds rebellion was crushed. here in the villages the peshmerga who didn't built up supply. anyone opposed to saddam could seek refuge here. so the regime began by attacking their villages. burning gassing and destroying the villages meant controlling kurdistan. lunches like a homage to the victims on the menu adama stuffed vegetables prepared by a mets wife. a sunny like saddam hussein my driver khaled is a latino he didn't know or didn't want to know the terrible truth. look i'll show you the house where i was born yeah here on this hill where we're a city is like a memorial to the village as it was before the tragedy it was here that the

villages came together every evening to talk to play backgammon and listen to the radio. i leave a comment to commemorate his loved one. we continue towards the east and kirkuk the former capital of kurdistan today on iraqi territory. so what if that god be praised i'm not scared when the region was under american control i was afraid about it but as soon as the iraqi police and army took over things got much better if the americans didn't know the region they were afraid and trigger happy that they didn't hesitate to fire at anyone who approached them like the passenger foreigner anyone. on this road has seen a lot of drama how many times did the american shoot down iraqis here for no reason gotta go. through the windscreen the first iraqi checkpoint appears it's time to lower the camera and film or discreetly. that.

the soldiers here are regularly targeted by armed groups and are also quick to shoot what to do and about the attacks and kidnappings are frequent in the area. at the moment checking our identity an itinerary takes too long hours. but at last we can hit the road again a road that is more than dangerous. to be honest no one took this road before al qaeda basically all the terrorists control the region and everyone is afraid of venturing out on this road today we feel a bit safer at getting there but it. the constant road blocks me now two hundred kilometer journey takes eight hours. night has fallen when i reach her coke and the sky is lit up by flast tanks the city

floats on a vast sea of oil. for centuries pilgrims came here to gather around the eternal flames. the kurds would dearly love to reclaim the city the former capital of baghdad. unwilling to lose such a profitable treasure. one term to a majority of kurds today is a mix of turkmen arabs kurds and christians a veritable ethnic powder keg. said i want to start this morning's planters around occurred but they're not walker who can kurdistan's independence he would pay with his own blood. said i what. kind of book. that has to become part of kurdistan again that it's vital

here bonded by blood to constitute them but that they can kill us and shoot at us but it won't change anything we are linked to kurdistan pleasant city actually mean we cannot live outside of kurdistan it would be like dying. my brother we invite you to a restaurant. might i cannot let you go without inviting me i am a kurd and hospitality is a custom with us. you can continue your journey after the may. i swear before god when i come to the restaurant with me you are welcome when the end of the get away of course. for khaled it's time to pray. for us to eat the. as we enter the village a few peace men appear as an escort. i would say to watch as they say to protect us . and so i pay for everyone's meal is a kind of friendly tax and what was. it said

that could be one of the world's richest cities it is certainly one of the most dangerous. discreet an ordinary heroin saima who is a kurd investor are opposed and fortune in the opening of a private school a generous act which has attracted envious attention don't let me just i'm terrified so little if i do the day after or not flood was broadcast still to promote the school to physio i got a telephone call i would you. know yes there's a lot of hobby hello about any hello little you know a nothing i'd have if it is simple but it. he got a man introduced himself as a member of a terrorist organization and demanded money from my colleagues were terrorized through. other likes i was a school for

a month and then i said we have to open it again we can't just give in. we have to work still life has to go on. that. neither the terrorists nor anyone else can stop me from working as a pistol only god is the master of my destiny. wealthy british style. is not on the typewriter. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cons a report on. the mission free cretaceous three terms for charges free. range month three risk free. to tide

free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free medio dog hearty dot com. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more powdery down to the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight the fire. piece and it is going to pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout much of in life will be a slog through driving lessons some emergency vehicles are exceptions.

when we reach must to the second biggest city in iraq it has been locked down by the army. the previous night two bombs went off in the suit. i have to negotiate with the military chiefs for three hours before they let me enter. across what appears to be a dead city and yet today mosul is in party mode. my name is ahmed and about i'm a law student today is a festival the university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to

protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination my dream is quite simple i just want to live in an iraq that's safe and pete it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscle with no regrets. this road fraught with danger can also hold certain surprises and. stops to help a friend even in iraq one can run out of petrol. it's hilarious we have the world's second biggest oil reserves and we're short of petrol and gas. were reduced to for

. up on the black market at exorbitant prices. common sense would suggest that petrol was available in quantity and free perhaps not free but not too expensive anyway and what. john. as soon as we arrived on the outskirts of tikrit saddam hussein's former stronghold where arrested by the police i have the feeling we were expected. after a few hours of questioning were put under house arrest in a hotel and forbidden from going out. and the situation eases the following afternoon when we're granted two hours of freedom but we're still under close surveillance.

the next man who joins us in the taxi is in mourning his name's fadel he's a journalist and he lost his best friends just two days ago. but then god will save iraq. sorry. your draw your they want to make iraq a wretched country cannot be. but that would be assassinate the best among us the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel or who kills a religious man behind an economic or teacher certainly doesn't do it for religious reasons it's obvious he does it mostly for money because our religion does not tolerate all these crimes the only motive for these crimes is money and they're ordered from outside to kill our best people have seen.

in the city center the mosque still burn. the name of the man who built it was saddam hussein. idealist come to pay a final homage to his murdered friend. on april second two thousand and twelve. a holiday in a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded. until. a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a sunni state much to their advantage. they can injure the americans didn't come here to look for weapons of mass destruction nor to hunt down certain are saying they came to rob us and to kill us ation iraq it was a unified country but at the moment when they arrived at the americans that

triggered divisions by creating ethnic conflicts just you know this very well. they destroyed everything and then they left but i don't know if they'll be done reality they're still here they make people think they've gone but they're still present their aim is to create discord in iraq that all my life that is all. over. as we leave tikrit we come to a village in the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where he was finally caught. on december fourteenth two thousand and three saddam was captured at dawn in his hideout in a farmyard a miserable rattle two meters underground. disheveled and distraught he surrendered to the american forces. in his. more to kalashnikov's

than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. by. how there are those taxis a gas guzzler and we need more petrol. but it was here. we seek out the black market and the power level business which fills the coffers of a few politicians civil servants and terrorist groups to. the oil money benefits everyone apart from the iraqi people. now faltering of. the temperature hits more than forty degrees on the machines a cool down with a hose. for the men it's time to wash and pray before sitting down for a meal. that

surprised by my presence but soon opened up. for the sunny custom as the whole affair was an american manipulation. movement the greek word kuwait plays a key role in the arab world and. the americans used the country to trap saddam of like them fearing i mean how did before they set the bait up and he took it it was a prearranged ambush. it's time to leave and head for lucia khaled doesn't like stopping for too long. kidnappings are frequent here and for the criminal gangs everyone has a price probably including make. a killing in the kidnappings may be motivated by political or religious convictions but increasingly

simply for profit. i've lost count of the checkpoints along the way but the controls this morning seem interminable. i don't know who this fever victory sign is aimed at as we finally enter the ravaged city of fallujah. joe was the scene of one of the most violent american offensives of the. g.i. summerlee killed youngsters and whole families here. kalisch recover. but they blew up cars and caused a lot of fatalities. is the most ravaged city in iraq of them annoying but i guess that's the american answer

but. the heat is unbearable and the motor is overheating the local grocer helpless to cool it. he's a man driven by anger he experienced the battle of fallujah at first hand and how hard it was watch imo how they are you could not democracy that it now is quite simply about killing and stealing our wealth our lands with burnt from the effects of the white phosphorous bombs and now our children are gone disfigured. that they are not what they are so beloved all the god living with us go and see the hospitals and you'll see mothers throwing away their babies deform and by all the chemical weapons that saddam the only that could do if there's justice in the world bush will have to answer for his war crimes and crimes against humanity he claimed iraq had weapons of mass destruction but where were they these weapons. were let me although i do know that this was a killer using white phosphorous bomb while the moment so i don't. even though the

mosque was saved from his barbarity look at the ruined minaret. that's bush's democracy the judge holier than what the other wanted the idea. on november seventh two thousand and four a deluge of iran and fire rains down on the city of two hundred mosques had to die it was a last stronghold for the al qaeda mujahedeen. twelve thousand marines three hundred tanks on one hundred also helicopters were launched against pollution. the biggest urban battle in iraq was underway. after. the american victory was total the casualty figures speak for themselves one hundred american soldiers were killed and on the iraqi side it's estimated there were between four and five thousand victims most of them civilians.

the battle left a city in ruins where death continue to take its toll. and their offensive it's thought the u.s. troops used white phosphorous bombs and depleted uranium weapons banned by all international conventions. so i want to our new passenger is not administrator at the general hospital. since the battle of fallujah ended has kept records of the children born with congenital malformation. for him there's no doubt the americans were responsible for this tragedy.

for me the administrator's office becomes an empty chamber of horrors. that i learnt that the war is far from over in fact it's still going on for the stigmata are there and they're evolving in two thousand and five we know to a spectacular increase in genetic malformations a new born babies how large that this is what the. voters only show a tiny part of the reality just for the month of january if we recorded forty three cases. the worst year for the most. white house of the day

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